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OTTAWA - A digital petition once famously forced the White House to provide official comment on an oddball suggestion for stimulating the U.S. economy: building a heavily armed intergalactic space station...

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Spring is a favourite transitional time for lovers of home decor. Shaking out the rugs and washing the windows after a long winter feels satisfying, and then there's the prospect of perhaps replacing ...

They told him there was no market for his guitar-based Mediterranean music, so he created his own record label. They said he wasn't popular enough to play Massey Hall in Toronto, so he booked the venue himself and sold it out twice. They told him he couldn't break into the American market. He did an 80-show tour across the U.S. in three months.

Terrorism poses a greater risk to railways and the communities they pass through than derailments do, and notifying public officials of dangerous-goods shipments may actually increase the risk of attacks, says the CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.

Ottawa's bumpy seven-year mission to foster fiercer wireless competition across the country is set to reach a climax this week when Industry Canada reveals the results of the much-anticipated AWS-3 spectrum auction to be held Tuesday.

The Toronto stock market closed modestly higher Monday as the latest reading on U.S. manufacturing showed slowing expansion and the Chinese central bank moved to spark that country's slowing economy through a rate cut.

Vancouver real estate executive Peter Thomas was on a beach in Honolulu in 1974 when he heard of a great new business opportunity: Century 21. More than its name was ahead of its time: it was the first successful attempt to unite independent real estate brokerages under one heavily promoted brand.

Despite a number of challenges, including the precipitous drop in oil prices, Federated Co-operatives Ltd. (FCL) was still able to achieve a record $10.8 billion in sales in 2014, CEO Scott Banda told 330 delegates at the company's 86th annual general meeting.

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan has agreed to purchase 9.5 per cent of Brazilbased company Fertilizantes Heringer S.A. (Heringer) for $55.7 million US with an eye to becoming the company's main supplier over time.

The New York Daily News used its big headline to call William Shatner "Captain Jerk" for missing Leonard Nimoy's funeral in L.A. the other day. Now Huffington Post notes that Shatner has explained, via Twitter, that "I feel really awful. Here I am doing charity work and one of my dearest friends is being buried."

Veronica Roth fans can start the countdown. The Divergent author is set to write a new two-book series, HarperCollins Children's Books said Monday. The books currently are untitled, with the first one expected in 2017 and the next in 2018.

Michael Jordan and two other NBA owners have joined Forbes' list of the world's billionaires. Forbes released the list Monday and noted Jordan's net worth is estimated at $1 billion, thanks to his well-timed investment in the Charlotte Hornets. Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander ($1.6 billion) and the Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf ($1.3 billion) also made the list.

Kurt Busch has agreed to follow NASCAR's guidelines to be eligible for eventual reinstatement. Busch was indefinitely suspended Feb. 20 after a judge said he believed Busch likely committed domestic violence against an ex-girlfriend and there was a "substantial likelihood" of him doing it again. Busch lost two rounds of appeals to be reinstated before the season-opening Daytona 500.